The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

company incorporated under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956 (now section 8 under

Companies Act 2013 The Companies Act 2013 (No. 18 of 2013) is an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of India which forms the primary source of Indian company law. It received presidential assent on 29 August 2013, and largely superseded the Companies Act 19 ...

) with an objective of facilitating improved internet services in the country.

History

Registered on 19 June 2003, its primary purpose is to facilitate exchange of domestic internet traffic between the peering ISPs, Content players and any other organisations with their own

AS number An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined rou ...

. This enables more efficient use of international bandwidth, saving foreign exchange and also improves the

quality of service Quality of service (QoS) is the description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a telephony or computer network, or a cloud computing service, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network. To quantitat ...

(QoS) for internet users by avoiding multiple international

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and thus reducing latency. Utilising servers routed through and administered by

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

, it also reduces the chances of Indian data being intercepted unlawfully by

NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and proces ...

and

GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primar ...

. NIXI is managed and operated on a neutral basis and currently has 40 operational

network operations center A network operations center (NOC, pronounced like the word ''knock''), also known as a "network management center", is one or more locations from which network monitoring and control, or network management, is exercised over a computer, teleco ...

(NOCs) located in multiple parts of the country. Since 2005, NIXI has also created

INRegistry INRegistry is the organisation responsible for the .in top level domain, TLD and the native language internationalised domain name TLDs for the country. It was appointed by the government of India, and operates under the authority National Intern ...

( .in domain) as its autonomous body for maintenance of .IN domain. Since December 2012, NIXI also manages the National Internet registry of the country delegation Internet Protocol addresses (

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first version of the Internet Protocol (IP) as a standalone specification. It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. ...

and

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...

) and autonomous system numbers to its affiliates. Effective from December 27, 2021, bulk domain registrations, with individuals registrant registering for more than 2 or an entity registering for more than 100 .in domains are required to seek prior approval from the CEO of National Internet Exchange of India.

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National Internet Exchange of India

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